Geography
Stone Age People
Mesopotamia
Egypt
CHALLENGE!
100
What is the study of the Earth's surface and how people use it>
Geography
100
On which continent did early people first appear?
Africa
100
Name the two rivers located in Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
100
What is the name of the mouth of the Nile River?
the Nile Delta
100
What is unique about the Nile River?
It runs south to north.
200
What explains the symbols on a map?
Map Key
200
What is a long period of bitter cold?
The Ice Age
200
Name one culture that lived in Mesopotamia?
The Sumerians
200
Egypt was divided into what two sections?
Upper and Lower Egypt
200
Why did the Egyptians invent a calendar?
To predict floding of the Nile
300
What are the north-south lines on a globe?
Lines of longitude
300
TRUE or FALSE: Land is always fertile from year to year.
FALSE
300
What was the first "hero" legend written by the Sumerians?
The Epic of Gilgamesh
300
What is the name of the Egyptian Sun God?
Ra or Re
300
What geographical feature enabled humans to move from continent to continent?
Land bridges
400
What are the east-west lines on a globe?
Lines of latitude
400
What are people with no settled home?
Nomads
400
What name was given to the rich farming land in Mesopotamia?
The Fertile Crescent
400
What is the name given to Egyptian writing?
Heiroglyphics
400
What geographci feature is the BEST for survival of a settlement of humans?
water
500
On a map, what direction marker shows the cardinal directions?
Compass Rose
500
What was the name given to the human found in the ice in the Alps near Italy in 1991?
Otzi the Ice Man
500
What was the most important building in a Sumerian city, used for religious worship?
A Ziggurat
500
Egyptian kings were called ________________. Can you name one?
Pharaoh Tutanhkamun Amhotep Rameses
500
When customs and language of one culture appear in another, this is called...
cultural diffusion
M
e
n
u